Get geographic location information for an IP address including country, city, coordinates, timezone, and postal code. Can look up any IPv4 or IPv6 address, or your own IP if no address is provided.
AI agents call lookup_ip_address_location to retrieve information from IPLocate MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves geolocation data (country, city, coordinates, timezone, postal code) for IP addresses without modifying, executing, or deleting anything. It is a passive intelligence lookup with no capability to alter state or trigger external operations.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'lookup_ip_address_location' and description 'Get geographic location information for an IP address' indicate pure data retrieval with no side effects. The action is to 'get' and 'look up', which are read-only queries.
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Get geographic location information for an IP address including country, city, coordinates, timezone, and postal code. Can look up any IPv4 or IPv6 address, or your own IP if no address is provided. It is categorised as a Read tool in the IPLocate MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the IPLocate MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for lookup_ip_address_location: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches IPLocate MCP Server. Nothing to install.
lookup_ip_address_location is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the lookup_ip_address_location rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for lookup_ip_address_location. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
lookup_ip_address_location is provided by the IPLocate MCP Server MCP server (kunw4r/mcp-server-iplocate). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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